The typical enterprise recognizes the immense potential of business intelligence (BI) and its impact upon many facets within the organization—but it’s not easy to transform BI’s potential into real business value. In The New Era of Enterprise Business Intelligence, top BI expert Mike Biere presents a complete blueprint for creating winning BI strategies and infrastructure, and systematically maximizing the value of information throughout the enterprise.
This product-independent guide brings together start-to-finish guidance and practical checklists for every senior IT executive, planner, strategist, implementer, and the actual business users themselves. Drawing on thousands of hours working with enterprise customers, Biere helps decision-makers choose from today’s unprecedented spectrum of options, including the latest BI platform suites and appliances. He offers practical, “in-the-trenches” insights on a wide spectrum of planning and implementation issues, from segmenting and supporting users to working with unstructured data.
Coverage includes
Understanding the scope of today’s BI solutions and how they fit into existing infrastructure
Assessing new options such as SaaS and cloud-based technologies
Avoiding technology biases and other “project killers”
Developing effective RFIs/RFPs and proofs of concept
Setting up competency centers and planning for skills development
Crafting a better experience for all your business users
Supporting the requirements of senior executives, including performance management
Cost-justifying BI solutions and measuring success
Working with enterprise content management, text analytics, and search
Planning and constructing portals, mashups, and other user interfaces
Previewing the future of BI
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